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PENINSULA DAILY NEWS April 4, 2016 | 75¢
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Eye on Olympia
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Exiting senator pleased by deal But more funding work is needed BY MARK SWANSON PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
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Ethan Hickman of Olympia participated in a workshop on 11th century boat-building techniques this weekend at the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding in Port Hadlock.
Boat-building of Viking era studied in Port Hadlock Students experience working with tools from 11th century BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT HADLOCK — A group of shipwrights went back in time over the weekend as they learned boat-building techniques used in the 11th century by Vikings. “This may be the first time that Viking technology has been used on the West Coast of the United States,” said
instructor Jay Smith. “There has been a resurgence of interest in this work in Norway and the Arctic but no one’s done it here yet.”
Lapstrake boats At the three-day workshop that ended Sunday at the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding in Port Hadlock, 14 students learned how to build Nordic lapstrake boats, which were first constructed before the advent of sawmills. “People are learning how to use tools and their hands in a way that is still relevant today,” said Betsy Davis, the school’s executive director, as the work-
shop began Friday. “It’s been really exciting to see them really engaged in this process.” Students split logs into vertical grain (riven) planks with the use of hardwood wedges and turned them into finished planks with broad axe, draw knife, spokeshave and cabinet scraper. The students were taught two techniques: the creation of hardwood splitters and how to use them to turn large logs into planks for ship construction. The workshop didn’t tackle actual shipbuilding, a process that could take months depending on the design and the number of people involved, Smith said. TURN
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OLYMPIA — Overall, state Sen. Jim Hargrove is pleased with the supplemental budget approved in the special session that adjourned Tuesday. But the state senator from Hoquiam, who announced in March that he will not run for re-election this year, said he won’t regret being absent from deliberations on state funding of public education during the next session. The state Supreme Court has held the Legislature in Hargrove contempt with an ongoing $100,000-a-day sanction for failing to come up with new funding plan for the state’s public schools. As a senator who has been in the thick of budget discussions, Hargrove said the goal has been to reduce the part of public school education that has to be borne by local tax levies. The problem, he said, is that “there just isn’t room in the existing budget” to provide more money for schools without a tax hike. Sending more money to local schools without a tax hike would mean closing prisons or privatizing universities, he said. “If I’m concerned about anything,” he said, “it’s that they don’t rip apart the safety net” to satisfy the requirements of the Supreme Court McCleary decision on funding of public schools. “I’m always concerned that there would be unwise reductions in other areas, financially and safety-wise,” he added. TURN
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Park drops idea of closing 101 around lake Comment taken now on road rehab BY LEAH LEACH PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — A draft document drops the idea of closing a 12.3-mile section of U.S. Highway 101 around Lake Crescent during rehabilitation of the roadway beginning next year, instead proposing two alternative plans of traffic delays over three years. The draft environmental assessment (EA) dismissed closing the highway entirely for any length of time after the National Park Service received public comment on preliminary alternatives broached last year.
alternatives now under consideration, said the draft EA about the highway used by some 2,500 Among the possible alterna- vehicles per day, including 500 tives was closing the lake stretch trucks that are primarily log of the highway entirely for 1.7 trucks. construction seasons — which are from March to November — or Public comment closing it for shorter periods of Public comment will be taken time. Traffic would have been through April 30. rerouted to state highways 112 Public meetings are scheduled and 113. in Port Angeles and Forks this Instead, construction will be month. They are: over a longer period of time — ■ Monday, April 18 — 5 p.m. three years — but less disruptive to 7 p.m. in the dining room at the to travelers, if one of the draft Port Angeles Senior Center, 328 document’s alternatives is E. Seventh St. Presentations will approved. be made at 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. “Closing the road (even during ■ Tuesday, April 19 — 4 p.m. the shoulder season) would have to 6 p.m. at the Rainforest Arts more impacts” than the two Center, 35 N. Forks Ave., in Forks.
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losing the road (even during the shoulder season) would have more impacts” than the two alternatives now under consideration, said the draft EA about the highway used by some 2,500 vehicles per day, including 500 trucks that are primarily log trucks.
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Presentations will be at 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. No timeline was provided for the release of a final EA or for a final decision on the project. Rehabilitation work is slated to begin in 2017, but the schedule is still subject to change, according to Olympic National Park spokeswoman Barb Maynes. The proposed rehabilitation of the section of highway that wends through the park would include
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replacing sections of road bed, removing rock-fall hazards, resurfacing, replacing more than 44,000 linear feet of guardrail and replacing drainage structures and retaining walls. It also would include work on East Beach Road. Drainage structures would be replaced and safety and pavement conditions improved, the park service said. TURN
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